Hochstetler, Walter Edwin (1944-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Dec 10 p. 13

Birth date: 1944 Apr 11

text of obituary:

WALTER HOCHSTETLER

Walter Edwin Hochstetler, 63, died Nov. 20, 2007, at Beech Grove Community, Nonington, England, following a three-month illness with stomach cancer.

He was born April 11, 1944, to Elam and Eliza (Bender) Hochstetler in Goshen, Ind.

He was a 1967 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University and a 1970 graduate of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. In 1970 he was a founding member of Fellowship of Hope congregation, an intentional community in Elkhart, Ind.

On Aug. 17, 1974, he married Frances Zerger of Moundridge, Kan. In November 1985, they moved to the Deer Spring Bruderhof in Norfolk, Conn.

Besides living in Goshen and Elkhart, he also lived in New York and Pennsylvania and moved to England from Farmington, Pa., in June 2003.

Survivors include his spouse, Frances; six children, Jonathan Hochstetler and his wife, Lisa, of Moundridge, Kan., Samuel Hochstetler and his wife, Daisy, of Nonington, England, Timothy Hochstetler of Rifton, N.Y., Isaac Hochstetler of Wichita, Kan., Rhoda Hochstetler of Newton, Kan., and Rachel Hochstetler of Nonington, England; seven siblings, Laban Hochstetler of Middlebury, Ind., Miriam Graber Schrock of Goshen, Ind., Samuel Hochstetler of Aroda, Va., Daniel Hochstetler of Goshen, Ind., Noah Hochstetler of Dangriga, Belize, Marietta Stoltzfus of Goshen, Ind., and Joseph Hochstetler of Minerva, Ohio; a grandaughter; and a number of stepbrothers and sisters.

He was preceded in death by sisters Rhoda Edna Hochstetler and Esther Eva Herschberger.

A memorial service was held at East Goshen Mennonite Church. Funeral services were held at Beech Grove Community, and he was buried in the Beech Grove Community cemetery, Nonington, England.